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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
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